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Smotrich’s Apocalyptic “Decisive Plan” for Gaza
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Smotrich’s Apocalyptic “Decisive Plan” for Gaza

Dan Steinbock

Bezazel Smotrich is one of political leaders of Israel’s Messianic far-right. But he is also a shrewd administrator executing a biblical “decisive plan” of ethnic […]

“And those who husbanded the Golden Grain:” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:15

“And those who husbanded the Golden Grain:” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:15

09/18/2025 By Juan Cole

The West Needs to Expedite Visas, Study Permits, Safe Passage for Palestinians in Gaza

The West Needs to Expedite Visas, Study Permits, Safe Passage for Palestinians in Gaza

09/18/2025 By Committee on Academic Freedom

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US District Court Judge: "It is every individual’s obligation to confront the current siege in Gaza"

US District Court Judge: “It is every individual’s obligation to confront the current siege in Gaza”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – U.S. District Judge Jeffrey S. White of the Northern District of California ruled Tuesday in a lawsuit brought by Palestinian-Americans […]

Juan Cole

Displaced and Refugees
Gaza: Weaponisation of Food has been used in Conflicts for Centuries – but it hasn’t always resulted in Victory

Gaza: Weaponisation of Food has been used in Conflicts for Centuries – but it hasn’t always resulted in Victory

By Greg Kennedy, King’s College London | – (The Conversation) – More than half a million Gazans are currently facing “catastrophic hunger”, according to UN […]

The Conversation

Addiction
“Helping” People by Shaming Them — and Canceling Their Civil Rights

“Helping” People by Shaming Them — and Canceling Their Civil Rights

By Mattea Kramer and Sean Fogler ( Tomdispatch.com) – Amid ongoing emergencies, including a would-be autocrat on his way to possibly regaining the American presidency […]

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Juan Cole on the Mother of all Middle East Crises at "Intercepted"

Juan Cole on the Mother of all Middle East Crises at “Intercepted”

Jeremy Scahill and Murtaza Hussain interview Juan Cole at their superb Intercepted podcast at the Intercept . I come in about 12 minutes in. They […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Gaza: Suspending UNRWA Aid Risks Hastening Famine

Gaza: Suspending UNRWA Aid Risks Hastening Famine

Human Rights Watch – (New York) – Governments should continue funding the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East […]

Human Rights Watch

Climate Crisis
Oil Firms Forced to Consider Full Climate Effects of new Drilling after Landmark Norwegian Court Ruling

Oil Firms Forced to Consider Full Climate Effects of new Drilling after Landmark Norwegian Court Ruling

By Daria Shapovalova, University of Aberdeen | – Norway’s district court in Oslo recently made a decision on fossil fuels that deserves the attention of […]

The Conversation

Antisemitism
Jewish American Dilemmas: Netanyahu's War Crimes, Trumpian Antisemitism and the Fringe Left

Jewish American Dilemmas: Netanyahu’s War Crimes, Trumpian Antisemitism and the Fringe Left

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Let’s face it. Israel under PM Benjamin Netanyahu (Bibi), isn’t helping the fight against global Antisemitism, and […]

H. Scott Prosterman

Displaced and Refugees
Freezing Aid to Gaza: Israel's International War against the UN Relief and Works Agency

Freezing Aid to Gaza: Israel’s International War against the UN Relief and Works Agency

by Dr Binoy Kampmark Imperilled, tormented Palestinians in Gaza had little time to celebrate the January 26 order of the International Court of Justice.  In […]

Middle East Monitor

Pentagon
Remote Warfare and Expendable People: Forever War means never Having to say you’re Sorry

Remote Warfare and Expendable People: Forever War means never Having to say you’re Sorry

( Tomdispatch.com ) – In war, people die for absurd reasons or often no reason at all. They die due to accidents of birth, the […]

Nick Turse

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